[SSE] Natural Disasters

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There was a starvation body preset posted today, which made me think about the general conditions in Skyrim that might lead to this. So, here is a list of disasters that would make an interesting start to a challenging mod:

1) Drought, then extensive forest fire that even affects farming.

2) The volcano south of Windhelm erupts, darkening the skies for weeks, dumping ash, starting fires.

3) Tidal wave inundates and largely destroys Windhelm, Dawnstar, more of Winterhold cutting off College, and the lower parts of Solitude.

4) Earthquake partly or largely destroys some cities. The destruction (escape through sewers) and rebuilding of Markarth would be epic.

5) Meteor strike, maybe darkness for days, maybe ejecta and fires. Perhaps starting with an epic visual of one of the moons being collided with and ripped apart into a ring.

6) Tornado rips down the tundra from east of Whiterun to Rorikstead.

7) Earthquake that rips the ground open with portal to Oblivion or worse.

:cool: A blight, undermining much of the flora base of the food chain.

9) A plague, creating zombie NPCs, and a quest to cure or destroy.

10) A pestilence, locusts blowing/swarming in from Hammerfell, or some dense and violent once-in-millennia mass transformation and migration (I'm thinking Dreugh or giant carnivorous Guar drones )

11) A new and addictive recreational drug with a extinction-level side effect, like reducing the testosterone of Skyrim's men.

12) Avalanche buries Riverwood or Iverstead